26 February—Ketanji Brown Jackson has most impressive credentials for virtually any job in or out of jurisprudence and likely will be a fine associate justice on the Supreme Court. But you wouldn’t know it from most media reports on her nomination. All you’d know is that she’ll be the first black woman on the court.

That’s because Justice Sonia Sotomayor is considered (merely) a woman of color even though she’s really white. She evidently qualifies as being of color because of her Puerto Rican heritage. Her mother appears to be as white as the justice, by the way. I can’t find a picture of her father, who died a half-century ago, but, given the justice’s complexion, it’s likely he also was white.

Come to think of it, when Judge Sonia Sotomayor was nominated for SCOTUS, her impressive curriculum vitae, including tenure on district and circuit benches, was considered less relevant than that she was going to be the first Hispanic and Latina on the court. That’s offensive.

Liberal media and politicians are positively gushing over Judge Ketanji Jackson’s likely appointment, focusing on her gender and color rather than her brilliant curriculum vitae. That’s offensive. Conservative media and politicians, somewhat less blinded by Judge Jackson’s gender and color, focus on what they assert is her ultra-liberal record as a district and circuit judge. That’s hypocritical. So what else is new?

Keep in mind that these same conservative media and politicians positively, defensively, and offensively gushed over the three SCOTUS justices nominated by Donald Trump and confirmed by the Republican-majority Senate. Also consider that the liberal media and politicians focused on what they asserted were the nominees’ ultra-conservative records as circuit judges—when attacks on their character proved fruitless. That’s hypocritical. So what else is new?

Why the hell must factors that should be irrelevant to job performance even be considered? Silly question. Why was Barack Obama our first black president when he was really as white as he was black? Does it matter that Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s husband are white? Of course not.

Does it matter that there are no Protestants currently sitting on formerly Protestant SCOTUS, except perhaps Neil Gorsuch, who is really a Catholic worshipping in an Episcopal church in the interest of family harmony? Who cares about Ketanji Jackson’s religion? Lots of busybodies, you can be sure.

Nor does it matter that Obama’s father’s third wife was white and Jewish and that the former president has a Jewish half-brother. He had two half-brothers, but one was killed in a motorcycle accident. Come to think of it, had the Jewish connection come out, it could have cost Obama the election. I had to get that in.

The point is, isn’t it about time we forgot about color, race, religion, and all that other superfluous, invidious crap, all the things that should have no bearing whatsoever on anything of substance? That so much is made of those factors these days is largely the fault of politically correct liberal busybodies who must harbor guilt feelings . . .